1) nobody gives a Fukk. Atmos thread...
2) try DSX wides...
3) pretty sure sdds-8 was only useful in large cinemas.
4) I have an idea. Go find the VHS thread...
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Like I tell my kids. It’s not what you say, but how you say it.
(Shakes head). Please consider your own advice. That's sad talking to that poor guy like that. It's not easy trying to convey things when Dolby made it sound like their layout is completely incompatible with Auro-3D (and they could have easily made it fully compatible with a few extra rendering locations in their rendering processor, but they WANTED to be arseholes and WANTED to ban everyone else from using anything they do as well until the European Court system stopped them cold. I can't say I'm too happy with their BS. Height speakers work fine with both. If the room is too long, it needs some top middle bridge speakers (they can be MATRIXED even and work fine; they just need to give a hard location so the imaging stretches past 120 degrees). The speakers don't need to be "in ceiling" even at 45/-45. They can be ON CEILING (much easier to set up; I'd use flat wires if you can't get it up in the ceiling). Just mount something like a PSB CS500 to a joist and it's aimable as well. My system works with everything perfectly fine and I'm using bookshelf, side height plus an on ceiling combination. The drivers don't know how they're mounted. They just blend together....
BTW, most (really ALL) of the Sony SDDS 8-speaker locations ARE also Dolby Atmos locations if you have a Trinnov processor so with one of those you could do play Atmos movies using the same layout (or more). I have a DSX (Marantz 7010) AVR here. I hated it. The extra reverb was fake/echoey sounding to my ears.
With my account still running like a snail and errors galore I'll leave you guys to your yelling at people while people are dying everywhere.... You've got to know what's important in life.
My job is infrastructure critical (I'm exempt from all lockdown/shelter orders) so I'm working whether I like it or not while everyone else either enjoys time off watching movies in lockdown (although I feel sorry for the ones that aren't getting paid). It's a messed up situation. I actually think it's not impossible I may have already had the virus back in the middle of January (as I had the exact symptoms of it with a 100 degree temperature for 2 days and a cough for 10-12 or so and I took 5 days off work at the time), but that's before it supposedly got to the US so it's hard to say whether it might have already been here in some key places or not and mistaken for the cold or flu during that time (they do NO testing for anything less than dying so there's no way to tell/know other than make assumptions which may or may not be true). I was in Oklahoma for almost a month and came back with the plane 2/3 empty. I didn't see anyone coughing at the Atlanta airport stop. Is it really as catching as they want you to think or is it still similar to all cold viruses, but cold viruses normally don't kill so no one pays that much attention to them and the transmission rates until now? Anyway despite some doctors out there saying it's no good, I'm taking zinc lozenges daily (trying to keep it under 50mg without symptoms as zinc starts becoming somewhat toxic at around 40mg if taken for long periods of time thus Zicam and Cold-Eze and the rest have higher yet doses to fight the cold viruses, but you're only supposed to take them at that 400mg+ level for only for 1 week) anyway (a doctor that studied corona viruses in general for over 20 years is also taking them so that should tell you something) and I have a load of tonic water here as well (chloroquine is a synthetic version of good old quinine that's in tonic water. Yeah, you'd have to drink 5 liters a day to get the same dose as the French trials and it's not the same exact thing, but hell, it's got my vote (and an excuse to drink gin & tonics after work!) and I think preventive doses would be much lower (I'm drinking 0.5-1.0 liter of sugar free tonic water a day now). Waste of time? Maybe bad for me? Maybe, but given the world has offered exactly NOTHING in the way of protection beyond distancing, gloves, wash hands, etc. else so far but telling people to stay home (except those of us that keep the infrastructure going; we're expendable don't you know), I'll take trying those at safe doses over nothing. I'm NOT telling anyone else to do the same. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions. I don't trust doctors to tell the truth (I've had too many idiot ones that got my diagnosis wrong for YEARS on something basic; they're not all good at troubleshooting and they weren't all A-students either). I've got a loose rib even now (costochondritis) that a specialist won't recognize because it was diagnosed (correctly) by a chiropractor that runs into it all the time so he won't do anything. I've had it shift and mega pain again and then one time for example I sneezed and my rib cage moved back into place (I could feel the floating ribs on the side move and click) and 90% pain reduction again (spine checked with MRI; not it so you can guess what I think of that doctor too). Good luck people.
I've got Jumanji 3 in Atmos (streaming is Atmos; UHD disc when available is DTS:X in IMAX Enhanced) and The Rise of Skywalker (Atmos) to watch on my days off....
